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WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets
(Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)In addition to air pollution, environmental noise has become one of the major hazards for citizens, being Road Traffic Noise (RTN) as its main source in urban areas. Recently, low-cost Wireless Acoustic ... -
Weaving Regional Learning Ecosystems: a conceptual framework and tool for government leaders and policymakers
(2023-06)This article describes the outcome of a first, conceptual stage in a global project led by NetEduProject and UNESCO. The goal is to design a tool targeting government leaders and policymakers that ... -
Web of Energy: hacia la integración inteligente para las redes de sensores en Smart Grids
(2017-09)Las Smart Grids se presentan como una solución a la demanda de la gestión distribuida e inteligente de la energía, mejorando así las funciones de automatización, recolección ... -
What are the most widely used and effective attack coverage systems in men’s volleyball?
(Journal of Human Kinetics, 2018, Vol. 62, 2018-06)In volleyball, attack coverage is one of the play actions most neglected in coaching and research. The purpose of this study was to find out which attack coverage systems are used by high-level men’s ... -
What Can We Learn from a Master Chef About Collaboration
(Teacher College Record, novembre 30, 2017, 2017-12-22)Ferran Adria is widely recognized as one of the best chefs in the world. As education scholars, the authors of this commentary have developed an ongoing collaborative research relationship that has drawn ... -
What do New Zealand newspapers say about food tourism?
(Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 20, núm. 1, 2020, 2020)Food and tourism are the largest industries in New Zealand. While the interfaces between food and tourism have been extensively studied during recent decades, media representations of food tourism still ... -
What influences PhD graduate trajectories during the degree: a research-based policy agenda
(Higher Education (2020), 80: 1011-1043, 2020)During the past two decades, PhD graduate numbers have increased dramatically with graduates viewed by governments as a means to advance the knowledge economy and international competitiveness. Concurrently, ... -
What is the role of self-esteem in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis under a conservative treatment?
(Scoliosis, 2013, 8(Suppl 1):060, 2013)Self-esteem is defined as a “positive or negative orientation toward oneself” or “a feeling of self-appreciation” (Rosenberg, 1965). In AIS literature, there are contrasting results about the relation ... -
What Truth? How Civil Society Organisations Shape the Knowledge Production of Truth Commissions
(Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, vol. 17, núm. 5, 2023, 2023-11-30)This article examines how civil society organisations are able to shape the politics of knowledge production of truth commissions (TCs). The article argues that their capacity varies according to the ... -
When less is more? Resources richness influence on the value creation strategies for new technology-based ventures
(2015-08)This article studies whether resource positions have an influence in the early value creation efforts of technology-based ventures. We complement the resource-based view expectation on the positive ... -
Who Did Spanish Politicians Start Following on Twitter? Homophilic Tendencies among the Political Elite
(Social sciences, vol. 11, núm 7, 2022, 2022-07-08)Political communication has undergone transformations since the advent of digital networks, but do these new platforms promote interactivity and a public sphere with a more democratic political debate ... -
Whole body vibration for older persons: an open randomized, multicentre, parallel, clinical trial
(BMC Geriatrics, 2011, vol. 11, núm. 89, 2011-12)Background Institutionalized older persons have a poor functional capacity. Including physical exercise in their routine activities decreases their frailty and improves their quality of life. Whole-body ... -
Whole‐body vibration training for patients with neurodegenerative disease
(Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012, Issue 2, Art. No.: CD009097, 2012-02)Background Whole‐body vibration (WBV) may be a complementary training to standard physical rehabilitation programmes and appears to have potential benefits in the sensorimotor system performance of ... -
Whose Peace? Grappling with Local Ownership in Sierra Leone
(Peace and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 28, núm. 2, 2022)Local ownership has become a basic tenet of post-conflict peacebuilding strategies sponsored by the International Community. However, research on peacebuilding underlines a gap between policy discourse and ... -
Why do students consider dropping out of doctoral degrees? Institutional and personal factors
(Higher Education, 74, 1053-1068, 2017-01)Despite the increasing popularity of doctoral education, many students do not complete their studies, and very little information is available about them. Understanding why some students consider that ... -
Why do they choose their instruments?
(British Journal of Music Education. Volume 34, Issue 2, 2017, 2016-12)Motivation is a key word in the arts and, especially, in music since it conveys collective, as well as individual, feelings. The beginning of musical instrument learning should be based on the student’s ... -
Why travel drawing matters. Connecting architectural design sketching and travel drawing: a case of Le Corbusier's Acropolis sketches.
(2011-07)Through a critical discussion of the role and functioning of sketching in architectural design, followed by the analysis of a set of travel sketches by Le Corbusier, this study has investigated the ... -
Wireless Loss Detection over Fairly Shared Heterogeneous Long Fat Networks
(Electronics, 2021, 10 (9), 2021-04)The quality of inter-network communication is often detrimentally affected by the largedeployment of heterogeneous networks, including Long Fat Networks, as a result of wireless mediaintroduction. Legacy ... -
Women leading the audit process and audit fees: A European study
(European Research on Management and Business Economics, 2022-12-17)This study investigates if a gender effect exists on the audit fees associated with the presence of women in roles closely related to the audit process. The analysis is based on the largest European ...